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The world’s largest earthquakes occur along subduction zones, geologic hot spots where one of earth’s tectonic plates is slowly being forced underneath another. These plates stick, causing a buildup of stress, which is periodically released through massive earthquakes. These are not your run-of-the-mill 15-second San Andreas Fault earthquakes. These magnitude 8+ megathrust earthquakes shake the earth for four to six minutes and are followed by tsunamis and numerous aftershocks.